Melbourne watch parties for Socceroos World Cup clash

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B2 English listening practice · Australian English · Curated for upper-intermediate learners

About this clip

A 2:52 video in English at B2 level, suitable for upper-intermediate learners. The speech is at a natural pace around 181 words per minute, rated 4.4/5, hard listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.

What this clip covers:
  • ▸News & Current Events - Breaking news, current events, and journalism.
  • ▸Sports - Soccer, basketball, tennis, the Olympics, and athletes.

Vocabulary frequency

How common is the vocabulary in this B2 English listening practice listening practice?

86.5%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common English words
Based on this reel’s transcript, most of the vocabulary is high-frequency, everyday English.

General English frequency

78.1%
Top 1,000
86.5%
Top 2,000
94.1%
Top 5,000

Spoken English frequency

86.4%
Top 1,000
95%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000
👄 Conversational vocabulary
This reel’s words appear more often in subtitle-based spoken-English data than in general usage, so it may feel closer to everyday conversation.

Words above this video’s level

Quick glosses for vocabulary that goes beyond this video’s B2 level.

donning
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
putting on (clothes)
roos
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
(slang) Socceroos
roughing
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
making rough or violent
no brainer
1×
obvious decision, requires little thought

Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-US 2012 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.

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